*St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield manager, Donagh Vaughan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. BEATEN CLARE SFC finalists St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield will return with the same management for 2026 in their bid to reach the summit of club football in Clare.
*Clooney/Quin senior hurling manager, Fergal Lynch. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A CLARE SHC winner with Sixmilebridge is to join the management of the Clooney/Quin senior hurlers for 2026.
FOR THE first time, Co Galway this year will host the National Famine Commemoration when it takes place at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna on Saturday, May 16th.
*Brian Shanahan. Photograph: Burren Eye Photography SEVEN-TIME Clare SFC winner Brian Shanahan will return for a second season as manager of the Doonbeg senior footballers. BRIAN SHANAHAN will return for a second season as manager of the Doonbeg senior footballers.
PR disasters have been far too common in Killaloe in 2025, the latest seeing the installation of a seat facing the road as opposed to the shores of Lough Derg at Ballycuggeran.
*Dave Falconer. A NEW track from a Clarecastle music producer has been released as part of a deal with a UK music label.
FUNDING to provide Active Travel staff in Clare to the end of 2030 has been approved by the Department of Transport.
*Gerry O’Grady in action for Crusheen. Photograph: Ruth Griffin FORMER Clare defender, Gerry O’Grady is the new manager of his native Crusheen with the son of a two-time All-Ireland winner appointed as coach.
Jonathan Keane celebrates winning the South of Ireland Men’s Amateur Open Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ben Brady AS the 2025 sporting seasons draws to a close, the keenly contested and eagerly awaited Clare Echo sporting awards return.
*Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan (FG). Photograph: Joe Buckley OIREACHTAS members in the Mid-West need to move away from ‘four-cross roads politics’ and stop volunteering sites for a new hospital, the region’s only Minister has said.